(Click on the audio to listen to the NT Song of the Year - and find out more on Dave Crowe's website.)

Alice Springs musician Dave Crowe has taken out three awards, including the coveted Song of the Year at this year's NT Song of the Year Awards.

Dave's song 'Aloft' won Song of the Year and Best Folk Song of the Year, while another track 'Awake' took out Best Electronica / Dance.

"It was a very exciting evening and a lot of fun," says Dave.

"I rarely feel like any of my songs are finished, I always feel like there's more I want to do with them," he says.

"I really had no idea how they would go down."

Dave, who works at the Alice Springs Hospital as a pathology scientist, says the winning track 'Aloft' came together fairly quickly.

"I wrote the lyrics in the shower one morning," he says.

"...it just sort of came to me and I played around with them in my head - later on that day I got down to the studio and added guitar and mandolin and a few backing vocals..."

Dave Crowe is one of four locals who took out awards at the Music NT event - 'Lorrpu' by Stewart Gaykamangu won the best Pop song, 'Northern TerrorStory' by Hugh Winterflood won best Urban/Hip Hop and Gareth Dawkins won best Country with 'Secret Waltz'.

Long term local Basil Schild (now based in Darwin) won Best Roots / Blues for 'Revolution Day'.

(Dave Crowe interviewed by Anne-Marie Middlemast on Sunday, June 23rd)